Responding to requests for a tougher approach to petty crime, the authority asked the police to form "neighbourhood task teams" to deal with issues beat constables couldn't handle.Kent is not alone in seeing crime drop, or in stressing links with the community.
The force did not elaborate further on the trigger for the move, but assistant chief constable Garry Forsyth said he could not imagine any organisation that would want employees to use official social media accounts "to be openly critical of it [their employer] – or indeed allow it".
The secretary of the South Yorkshire police federation branch, constable Paul Middup, according to the minutes cited by the panel, told the restaurant meeting before Wright turned up: "The chief constable had said the truth could not come from him, but had given the secretary a totally free hand and supported him," as had many senior officers.
Police have secured all the locations the couple were known to have visited in the hours before they collapsed but the Wiltshire police chief constable, Kier Pritchard, accepted they could not have "100% confidence" they had pinned down all the sites.
The footballer, who is represented by celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman, who is known as "Mr Loophole", had argued there was no evidence to prove he was driving; prosecutors had not proved paperwork was issued by a person authorised by the Chief Constable of Essex; the court could not be sure he had received speeding notices; and the court could not be sure he had not responded to the notices.
South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Nikki Holland said police could not "keep a hold of everybody".
One of the letters, from publishing house Constable & Robinson, says it "could not publish [The Cuckoo's Calling] with commercial success".
South Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Nikki Holland said police could not "keep a hold of everybody", but said she did not think Cardiff had any greater problem than anywhere else in the UK.
Detective first class constable Nathan Nunn, told the inquest he could not recall being told anything about the reason for Dhu's visit to hospital or her medical condition before beginning his shift as lockup keeper on the night of 3 August, and did not check the custody records, a decision he attributed to "the dynamic nature of policing".
The Home Office considered the protest to be in humour, though the chief constable responded to say the office could not act against a protected scheduled monument.
